RPI president inducted into New Jersey inventors hall of fame

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson has been inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, honored for her achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics policy and research.

She received its Trustees Award recognizing her work as a theoretical physicist at Bell Laboratories, a physics professor at Rutgers University, the chairwoman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and her current role as president of Rensselaer.

Her research at Bell Labs is credited with enabling the understanding of electronic and opto-electronic materials used in semiconductor lasers that are now found in many devices.